On July 14th and 15th, Global Pulse hosted “Towards a Real-Time Understanding of Emerging Vulnerability,“ a conference for UN partners from 9 agencies and 8 countries to share research findings on how the world’s most vulnerable populations were affected by the economic crises in different sectors, and to explore whether (and how) we can do crisis impact assessments more rapidly in the future.
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This project investigates how social media and online user-generated content can be used to enrich the understanding of the changing job conditions in the US and Ireland by analyzing the moods and topics present in unemployment-related conversations from the open social web and relating them to official unemployment statistics. Two specific questions were addressed: can online...
This weekend I was in Toronto at the 3rd global event of Random Hacks of Kindness (a global community of software developers and designers building practical open technology to solve international development problems), thinking about humanitarian innovations.Innovation starts when someone has an idea, a sense that they can make something in the world work better. So far so good, but an idea...
Over the years, governments, development organizations and the private sector have invested untold billions in creating mobile phone-powered programs and services with the potential to help people lift themselves out of poverty and realize their dreams.
Wherever people are using mobile phones to access digital services and participate in development programs, they are leaving trails behind in the...
Originally posted by JustMeans on June 29, 2010.The Secretariat General has also launched the UN Global Impact Vulnerability Alert System (UN GIVAS) which has recently been re-named 'Global Pulse.' This new agency is using emerging technologies in ways never done before to do critical work: monitoring in as close to real-time as possible the changing conditions of vulnerable people. In it's own...
This proposal will develop a conceptual framework to monitor household coping strategies and their evolution to continuously adjust to compounds risks and shocks.
To this end, it will:
Undertake a review to identify the household level coping mechanisms and develop a theoretical economic model of households’ behaviours;
Suggest and validate indicators to monitor changes;
Review key UNDP and...